Olivia Harrison

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Olivia Harrison, 2009

Olivia Harrison (born May 18, 1948 in Mexico City as Olivia Trinidad Arias) is the widow of the former Beatles guitarist George Harrison . The couple met in 1974 and married on September 2, 1978 after the birth of their son Dhani (born August 1, 1978). Olivia was Harrison's second wife after Pattie Boyd .

Life

Olivia, one of three children of the dry cleaning worker and seamstress, graduated from school in 1963. She worked as a secretary at A&M Records , where her future husband had signed a recording deal .

Since the 1990s, Olivia Harrison has been working with Yoko Ono and Barbara Bach (initially also with Linda McCartney, who died in 1998 ) in the charitable foundation Romanian Angel Appeal for children who live in poverty in Romania . In the early 1990s she said: “It was sort of a gradual assault on my conscience. It was slowly wearing away at me and I decided that perhaps we should try to raise some money […] I went to Romania and was just overwhelmed, devastated and shocked by the situation ”.

In 2005, she received a Grammy in the Best Long Form Music Video category as the producer of the music film Concert for George .

Olivia Harrison manages the musical legacy of her late husband, so in 2009 she put the third best-of album Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison together with friends and in 2010 produced the CD box Ravi Shankar-George Harrison Collaboration .

Works

  • Olivia Harrison, Brian Roylance: Concert for George. A Celebration of the Life of George Harrison . Genesis, Guildford 2006, ISBN 0-904351-92-0 .
  • Olivia Harrison: George Harrison. Living in the Material World. The illustrated biography . Knesebeck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86873-416-4 .
  • Astrid Kirchherr , Olivia Harrison, George Harrison: When We Was Fab . Genesis, Guildford 2003, ISBN 0-904351-88-2 .

literature

  • Keith Badman: The Beatles Years. Volume 2: After the Break-Up 1970-2001 . Omnibus, London 2001, ISBN 0-7119-8307-0 .
  • Bill Harry: The George Harrison Encyclopedia. Virgin, London 2003, ISBN 0-7535-0822-2 .
  • Marc Shapiro: All Things Must Pass. The Life of George Harrison . Virgin, London 2002, ISBN 1-85227-9953-2 .
  • Gary Tillery: Working Class Mystic. A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison . Quest Books, Wheaton, IL, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8356-0900-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Harry: The George Harrison Encyclopedia , p. 223; Gary Tillery: Working Class Mystic. A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison, p. 115
  2. ↑ Marc Shapiro: All Things Must Pass. The Life of George Harrison, pp. 122-123
  3. ^ Keith Badman: The Beatles Years. Volume 2: After the Break-Up 1970-2001, p. 225


personal data
SURNAME Harrison, Olivia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arias, Olivia Trinidad (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician wife, widow of George Harrison
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico